by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)
Translation by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)
Chanson d'amour (Mesure pour mesure)
Language: French (Français) after the French (Français)
Our translations: CAT
Loin de moi, loin de moi ces lèvres que j'adore Et dont le mensonge, hélas! fut si doux. Ces beaux yeux que le ciel de mai prend pour l'aurore Ces yeux qui rendaient le matin jaloux. Mais si malgré tout ma douleur te touche, Ah! Rends-moi, rends-moi mes baisers, Sceaux d'amour qui furent posés En vain sur tes yeux, tes yeux et ta bouche.
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), "Chanson d'amour", first published 1896 [text unavailable]
Based on:
- a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Chanson d'amour (Mesure pour mesure)", op. 28 no. 2 (1891), published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Chansons de Shakespeare, no. 2, Paris : Rouart [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1899) , "Trek de lippen vol venijn", appears in Gedichten, in Twaalf liederen van Shakespere, no. 7, first published 1868 ; composed by Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus "Peter" Benoit.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jean-François-Victor Aicard (1848 - 1921) [an adaptation] ; composed by Jules Massenet.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Henri-Pierre Poupard, as Henri Sauguet.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) ; composed by Wilhelm Killmayer, Arnold Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Petersen.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from Herder's Volksliedern ; composed by Otto Claudius, Karl Sigmund Freiherr von Seckendorff.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Georg Mantey ; composed by Wolfgang Fortner.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Alfons Graff.
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- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Jan Karol Gall.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Cançó d’amor", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
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